The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.